HORSE WARRANTY 



CHAPTER I. 



THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF HORSES. 



Strange as it may appear to somo persons, a 

 sale of any article, especially of horses, is often 

 not so plain and simple a thing as is generally 

 supposed. In Great Britain -we have, by various 

 statutes and decisions, arrived at what a sale is or 

 should be; but this is not so in all places. Great 

 Britain has numerous possessions, and the same law 

 of contract does not prevail everywhere. Law 

 books, written in England, are greedily bought 

 up and studied, when often the English law does 

 not apply, and mistakes occm*, not because the 

 text-book is wrong, but because the English law 

 of contracts is not tlie law of the locality. The 

 British j^ossessions in East India are now almost 

 wholly supplied with horses from Australia, and 

 everything sounding in contract in India is go- 

 verned by the Indian Contract Act. Much, there- 

 fore, of the law on horses, contained in English 

 law books, is of no use to an Australian horse 



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